Managed Disks Reviews and details

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• premium ssd v2

  Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ for more information on how this disk is priced. Source: 11 months ago

• Price for unattached disk

  Google p30 and get this Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ About 7 usd per month. Source: about 1 year ago

• copy between disks/mountpoints slow

  What size are your disks as this determines a few things? Credit based bursting is enabled by default for E30 and smaller but you may have to upgrade to premium to get the performance what you need. Look at, Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: over 1 year ago

• How much do my unattached disk cost?

  So question for you...... How woudl you "normally" compute how much a disk that is not attached costs? Would it be by size/type, location? Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: over 1 year ago

• VM Pricing - Couple of Questions

  No, default OS disk is 127 GB (for windows machines). You will need just to resize it. Then you need to add another managed disk to VM https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. You don't need storage account for this. But you can use storage account as a file share replacement or also if you will be using native azure backup there will be another costs associated. Source: over 1 year ago

• VM Restore Points Pricing?

  VM Restore Points leverage Managed Disk snapshots as part of what they do. You can find snapshot pricing details here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: over 1 year ago

• We need more stash space

  I did check Azure pricing and for 1PB of data, which came out to $100k/month: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up to 14 GB/S

  I can't upvote this enough. Related: Notice how the public cloud marketing material tends to focus on scalability over other metrics? That's because scaling horizontally for them is easy: They just plop down more "stamps" -- a set of clusters and controllers that is their unit of scale. Need 1,000 more servers in US East? Plop down 10 more stamps of 100 servers. Easy! Except of course this involves an awful... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Does a VM image cost money to have sitting on Azure?

  Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/#:~:text=You%20can%20store%20full%20snapshots,used%20portion%20of%20the%20disk. Source: about 3 years ago

• IOPs and disk striping

  Both documented at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: about 3 years ago